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Back in 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev's risky gamble on the Virgin Lands seemed to be paying off, the Soviet ruler gleefully gibed at Western predictions that his pet scheme for plowing up 100 million acres of marginal land in Siberia and Kazakhstan could never solve Russia's chronic food shortage. "He laughs best who laughs last," chuckled Khrushchev. "So let us laugh at how these sorry forecasters have miscalculated...
...play by Jean Anouilh, in which English history wars with an impudent Gallic wit. Director Peter Glenville has flung the drama onto the screen like a vast Bayeux tapestry, held fast with the lancet-sharp performances of Peter O'Toole as Henry II, England's first Plantagenet ruler, and of Richard Burton as the 12th century martyr Thomas Becket. Henry loved Becket, raised him to eminence as Archbishop of Canterbury, then lost his onetime friend in a struggle between church and state that ended with Becket's murder...
...Gaullist constitution, especially asking that 1) the President's term be shortened from seven to five years so that he can be elected at the same time as the National Assembly, 2) the President's role should be more that of an arbitrator than an arbitrary ruler with sole authority over such "private domains" as foreign policy, and 3) vital decisions be taken by the Cabinet "and not by one man alone, no matter how great...
...officers' club, where Chen Yi burbled: "Words fail me in this ocean of friendship!" and later to a party at the headquarters of the Artists and Writers Union. At last, amid shouts of "kan pei!" ("bottoms up" in Chinese), Chou finally sat down to a sumptuous banquet. Communist Ruler Enver Hoxha described it as "a family dinner, just as if you were at home." After such a hectic night of pub crawling, Chou probably wished that he were...
Pope Paul VI is the 261st successor of St. Peter as Bishop of Rome; Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople is the 261st successor of St. Andrew, legendary founder of the church there. Once the two sees were equal in strength and power. Now, the Pope is infallible ruler of 558 million Roman Catholics. Athenagoras is somewhat grudgingly acknowledged as primate by the other patriarchates and churches of Orthodoxy (total membership: perhaps 150 million), but he exerts direct jurisdiction over scarcely 2,000,000 people, mainly in Turkey, the Dodecanese Islands...